Benjamin Faude is a lecturer in international relations at the University of Glasgow. Previously, he worked at Newcastle University, at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. Faude holds a PhD from the University of Bamberg in Germany and held visiting positions at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Vrije University Brussel. In addition, he taught at the University of Bamberg, at Free University Berlin, and at Charles University in Prague. Faude’s research seeks to contribute to a better understanding of how institutional complexity affects the prospects of effective and legitimate global governance. Benjamin.Faude@glasgow.ac.uk

Yoram Z. Haftel is professor and the Giancarlo Elia Valori Chair in the Study of Peace and Regional Cooperation in the Department of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research explores the sources, design, and effects of international organizations (IOs) and international investment agreements (IIAs) as well as the politics of regime complexity. His recent work investigates the role of IOs in the IIA regime, the effect of crises on IO durability and performance, the relationships between IO overlap and authority, and the evolution of the disaster relief regime complex. Yoram.Haftel@mail.huji.ac.il

Stephanie C. Hofmann is the Joint Chair in International Relations between the Department of Political and Social Science and the Robert Schuman Center of Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, as well as the director of the Europe in the World research area at the center. Her research revolves around dense governance spaces, organizational expressions of multilateralism, and global ordering processes. She addresses these themes mainly with a focus on foreign and security policy in the transatlantic space and globally. stephanie.hofmann@graduateinstitute.ch

John Karlsrud is research professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, with a PhD from the University of Warwick. He has been a Fulbright fellow at New York University, a visiting researcher at the International Peace Institute, and a visiting fellow at the European University Institute. He works on global peace and security as well as global governance more broadly. He is the coordinator of NAVIGATOR, a large-scale Horizon Europe project exploring changes in global cooperation across a range of issues, and the co–principal investigator of ADHOCISM, examining the role of ad hoc security coalitions in global governance. jka@nupi.no

Julia C. Morse is an associate professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on international organizations and global governance, with particular attention to the politics of information. She is the author of The Bankers’ Blacklist: Unofficial Market Enforcement and the Global Fight against Illicit Financing (2022), as well as journal articles, book chapters, and public-facing scholarship. From January–June 2025, she was a Robert A. Belfer International Affairs Fellow in European Security and held a visiting fellowship at the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative. Prior to academia, she served as an intelligence analyst in the FBI and a presidential management fellow at the State Department, where she was on the sanctions team at the United States Mission to the United Nations. jcmorse@polsci.ucsb.edu

Nina Reiners is professor of human rights and social sciences at the University of Oslo in Norway. She is the principal investigator of the European Research Council–funded project PROBONO: Private Law Firms as Transnational Advocates (2025–2029), co-leader of the research group Global Challenges to Human Rights, and holds research affiliations with the Geneva Graduate Institute’s Global Governance Centre and the Norwegian Nobel Institute. nina.reiners@nchr.uio.no

Abraham Singer is associate professor of business ethics and management at Loyola University Chicago’s Quinlan School of Business. He is the author of The Form of the Firm: A Normative Political Theory of the Corporation (2019) and co-author of Everyone’s Business: What Companies Owe Society (2024). His research has been published in various journals, including Business Ethics Quarterly, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Journal of Business Ethics, Economics & Philosophy, Political Research Quarterly, and the American Bar Association’s Journal of Labor and Employment Law. asinger2@luc.edu

Matthew D. Stephen is professor of international political economy at the Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg. He is a member of the German Research Foundation’s Heisenberg Programme and his research on power shifts and global governance has been published in journals such as European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Quarterly, and International Studies Review. stephenm@hsu-hh.de